Recent content by Diggory

Keith, did you mean to be so rude? What a shame if you did :( Shirley wasn't promoting her own stallions - she gave the sketchiest detail and no names and mentioned merely to support her comments and indicate the high regard in which she holds the AES. Plenty of people would have to look...

I think the key word here is "verifiable". And as the only source of verifiable information is the AES, yes, you had better await a written reply, because I doubt there's much truth in a lot of what you've already been fed and what is already circulating elsewhere in the media.

Might this chap interest you? http://www.shovernstud.co.uk/magician.html I haven't used him myself or even seen him in the flesh, but he looks interesting on paper and worth following to see how he goes with finishing his approvals etc. and once he's out competing. He is double dilute...

What a great day! Wouldn't have missed it for the world! A really fabulous collection of stallions old and new, in facilities that left nothing to be desired. The horses were very well presented, and everything ran as smooth as silk - real clockwork stuff, which is a testament to the level of...

Only just catching up with this now, as been abroad with work and flew home on leave on Friday to catch Hartpury. REALLY looking forward to seeing all those in this line-up, and it will be good to see a few again that I saw on Saturday, just to confirm or remove any doubts. Also, some fabulous...

Was anyone else astonished to see some of the stallions presented in hand when they are supposedly in work? And Kannan came in in a rug!!?? Bad enough that his numpty handler didn't have a clue what he was doing and let go when the horse stood up - which, frankly, is inexcusable in the horse...

This is actually a lovely horse. Why on earth hasn't his owner done the right thing and coughed up the money she owes, rather than the Courts having to force the horse's sale through somewhere like Reading? Doesn't she care about him at all? If he's being held where I think he is, then 'poor...

Alec, I gather you have been advised more than once to contact Cruiseline re. the stallion show she has mentioned on this forum that is on the cards. Why not do so, and give her your thoughts?

[Madsmw, if you can't be bothered to read everyone's comments, then you are hardly in a position to say if any or all of the expectations expressed were 'ridiculous' or not. I don't believe it was stated anywhere how long the programme was going to be, so it was not 'ridiculous' to suppose all...

[ QUOTE ] ........ I think that they did the best job with the Stallions available [/ QUOTE ] Oh dear oh dear oh dear - do you really think that? I don't suppose anyone owning or connected to a stallion that WASN'T shown will be too happy to hear that said - you've just effectively said that...

Well, as well as NOT being included in television programmes when they were were expecting it, and as well as there NOT being 100 stallions present as were declared attending (more like 48-odd in the end), and stallions NOT being declared to the public as only attending for one day, there were...

[ QUOTE ] Regarding Grafenstolz's conformation: Hilarious! I'm sure the 13 studbooks in Europe who have approved Grafenstolz, including the Hanoverians, the University of Munich, not to mention the 800+ breeders worldwide who have used him are grateful to Diggory for having spotted the "twist...

It doesn't matter how talented his owner and fans make him out to be: he was a nutjob at Twemlows and at stallion parades. I didn't like the twist in his forelimb or his dreadfully collapsed feet too, although maybe he'd had a rubbish farrier to cause the latter. There really ought to be more...

Will you not potentially get away with it being mistaken for a birdcatcher spot?

Rachel67, she sounds as though she has potential to be useful to someone for breeding, provided she is a good candidate for breeding herself - we can't know that without pedigree, photographs and probably more detail on the injury - in case it needs consideration with regard to her ability to...